A Warning About the 2024 Election & Climate Dystopian Sci-Fi | Weekly Reading Wrap Up #6

[@TunaFreeDolphinMeat]

Cheers from Down Under

[@EuphoricImpact]

I have been rockin' with your channel now for some time. I do not comment often, but I see you, and I appreciate your efforts! Thank you.

[@heabooktubes]

We’re proud of your consistent weekly wrap ups. And I love getting to see everything you read between both channels. ♥️♥️♥️

[@lusalma5404]

Selkies are interesting. Traditionally a fisherman would steal the Selkie's seal skin and take her to wife. I would say, given the forced marriage aspect lends it to being a dark tale. Movie wise - The Secret of Roan Inish; oddly enough apparently Anne McCaffrey wrote a selkie book that I did not read. I guess it will need to go on my tbr. Something in a similar vein that might be of interest is the Changling Sea by Patricia McKillip. It is YA :) One of the interesting tidbits I learned from reading manwha (because they have people dying from coughing up blood way too much) is that tuberculosis is still very much a thing in South Korea, far, far more than the US. It has been very difficult for a long, long time where we do not vote for the candidate that we like or that we feel upholds our values the most, but rather the one who we think will do the least amount of damage to our country.

[@vamps_rock]

SOLD on Liz Cheney's book! TFS 🥰

[@AurYouReading]

I kind of want to do a Jane Eyre month. To reread Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea then some other retellings. I loved Jane Eyre so much when I read it. I remember missing Jane after it was over.

[@headintheclouds754]

I read the Kaya Girl. It’s middle grade and so good!

[@mariasmiles68]

This is such an interesting mix this week. I read Lessons in Chemistry for our book club, slowly reading The Secret Lives of Church Ladies and can understand why all the hype around this book. Also, I'm listening to The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. I'm very interested in Light and Air.

[@TiffReadsBooks]

I really loved Into the Sunken City so much. How Thiru built his world was so good. I've been waiting to hear someone else's opinion! Jin's way of dealing with grief and how it played out in her character development was one of my favorite parts.

[@brooke5258]

I like hearing your takes on political non fiction. Even those you don't agree with, you still have some insight.

[@kalilah-o7y]

I listened to the audiobook by Liz Cheney and found it to be so so so good. She’s a wonderful narrator and speaks so well.

[@jessicafalkner9785]

I was debating whether or not to read it so I was very eager to hear your review of Cheney's book. It sounds like one I will be picking up.

[@imani_iguana]

I read When the Reckoning Comes (by: LaTanya McQueen) and Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute (by: Talia Hibbert) this past week. Love these reading wrap ups

[@cakt1991]

You really hit the nail on the head about Escaping Mr. Rochester. I really liked it, but I wanted more romance! I also thought it was weird how it grappled with some period-accurate gender issues, but also did very random things to situate itself in an alternate reality. There’s a throwaway reference to a “Queen Amelia the Second,” which left me very confused what LL McKinney was doing.

[@greysonkeller5418]

Im currently reading Cobalt Red and Faebound. I recently finished a manga Cat + Gamer 3 which is just a lighthearted and delightful read.

[@EzzyDT]

I loved Liz Cheney's book. I love to read about any event from a different point of view. I listened to the audiobook on the January 6 committee, and in the future, I plan to listen to Adam Kinzinger. Before the incidents of Jan 6, I listened to different views on all the presidents' men. I have never been in love with any candidates. I vote in my best interest. I have a question: have you heard about black women expat who are not going to vote? Some of the group comprises older teachers who live overseas, and most of their family members live in the USA.

[@joshhart2205]

I love your reviews! Escaping Mr. Rochester sounds so good. I'm gonna be a highschool English teacher and I took a class last semester where we read Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea, which is another Jane Eyre retelling and I highly enjoyed it. I've become a huge lover of classic literature since college, I just won't be teaching it much in my future classroom because it isn't something my students would resonate with. I need to read Liz Cheney's book. I am terrified for this year's election. I want to vote third party so bad because of Biden's awful funding of the genocide in Palestine and I feel like I can't morally vote for that. At the same time though I don't think our country is at the point where a third party candidate could win over a major party due to voter demographics and our system and a Trump win would be so much worse for than any other alternative. It is truly a sobering time for our country.

[@marisagettas]

I’m reading/have read: ABOVE GROUND by Clint Smith, THERE WAS A PARTY FOR LANGSTON by Jason Reynolds, the will to change by bell hooks, THORNHEDGE by T. Kingfisher, IT’S OK THAT YOU’RE NOT OK by Megan Devine, A VALENTINE FOR CHRISTMAS by Reese Ryan, and LIGHT IN GAZA: WRITINGS BORN OF FIRE (anthology). Plus various graphic novels with my nephews like the new Wings of Fire.

[@letsgoevie]

Currently reading The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw and Sweet Vengeance by Viano Oniomoh❤️

[@caitlinlucyhenderson8417]

I just finished an adult climate sci-fi book, A Half-Build Garden by Ruthanna Emrys. The main character is a queer, Jewish new mother who, along with her wife and child, becomes the first human to make contact with aliens who want to "rescue" humanity from climate change, regardless on our opinions. Very interesting, somewhere between a dystopia and utopia, though leaning towards the hopeful.

[@katherinesdimensionalreading]

I will say the selkie fairytales/stories I’ve heard are pretty brutally dark but I don’t know how the author translated that

[@rausaen]

I heard climate fiction is become more and more popular considering.....well....you know.